Intro to Magic LAN

Greetings, Gamer!

We're glad you want to know more about Magic LAN! This page gathers all the information you need to become a new member of our community.

Magic has been running PC gaming LANs in central Illinois for over fifteen years. We have a solid core group of local gamers that attend our events, but we also love to see new faces at every LAN. We enjoy serving the local gaming community, and try to create the best day of gaming we can. You can find out a lot more about us by taking a look around the rest of this website!

Wikipedia will tell you "A LAN party is a gathering of people with computers, between which they establish a local area network (LAN) connection, primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer video games together."

Our LAN parties are an opportunity for PC gamers around the Peoria and Bloomington areas to get together and socialize in person, meet a bunch of other local gamers, make friends (and rivals), and play a ton of great games together!

The average event has about 35 attendees, but we always have room for more gamers!

Anything you want! We provide the LAN space and network, but aside from the occasional tournament plans, we let the attendees choose what to play together.

It's hard to predict what will get played because the list of games is always growing, but there's usually discussion about the recent favorites in our forums. And there's a good chance that if you want to play it someone else at the LAN would love to join in! Need some examples? In no particular order, here are a bunch of the games we've seen played at past events:

We run a LAN party every other month or so. For details on the next one, take a look at the event registration page. If you can't attend the next event, make sure to join our community (below) so we can tell you about future events!

First off, register an account on this website! That's how you sign up for events, and it will add your email to our newsletter list so we can tell you about more events in the future. You can also join the discussions in our forums about upcoming events, games, and more!

Second, you can like our Facebook page. We make posts about events, sponsors, tournaments, and other gaming info that you might want to share with your friends.

We also have a Discord server for use during and in-between LANs. During the event all attendees get access to a dedicated channel to help everyone organize games. Between events we have several general chat channels.

And we have a Steam community group for the LAN as well. This is another great way to keep in touch with other members until LAN day.

Finally, tell your friends about us, too! This community is only as great as its members and the LAN parties are even more fun when you bring a couple buddies along!

That's great, we'd love to hear them! You can reach us on any of the community groups above, or you can email us at
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